Most¶

Status: Stable

documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

Description¶

Most[expr] gives all but the last element of expr.

Examples¶

All examples below are verified against the current Mathilda build.

In[1]:= First[<|"a" -> 10, "b" -> 20|>]
Out[1]= 10

In[2]:= Rest[<|"a" -> 10, "b" -> 20, "c" -> 30|>]
Out[2]= <|"b" -> 20, "c" -> 30|>

In[3]:= Take[<|"a" -> 1, "b" -> 2, "c" -> 3|>, 2]
Out[3]= <|"a" -> 1, "b" -> 2|>

Implementation notes¶

Algorithm. builtin_most returns a copy of the input with its last element dropped: it copies args 0 .. n−2 into a new function node with the same head. Returns NULL (unevaluated) for atoms or empty expressions.

Attributes: none registered.

Implementation status¶

Stable — documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

References¶

Source: src/part.c
Specification: docs/spec/builtins/data-structures.md

Notes & additional examples¶

Worked examples¶

In[1]:= Most[{a,b,c,d}]
Out[1]= {a, b, c}

Notes¶

Most[expr] drops the last element; it is the complement of Last.